Follow the drinking gourd…
“which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?”
“Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”
“indeed if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices-…-then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to.”
“all ‘direct’ persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited.”
“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864